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1984 - 1,513 words
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four is a compelling novel,
written in the period just after W.W.II. It
details the life of one man, Winston Smith, and
his struggles with an undoubtedly fascist
government. The book is set approximately in the
year 1984, in which Winston's society is ruled by
a governing force known as The Party. At the head
of this government is a fictional figure known as
Big Brother, to whom all citizens must love and
respect. In this society, privacy and freedom do
not exist. People are constantly monitored by
telescreens, and subjected to a constant barrage
of propaganda. Any devious thought or action is
dealt with by cruel and deadly punishment. Winston
is a worker in one of the g ...
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Active Transport - 1,302 words
Active Transport Since the cell membrane is
somewhat permeable to sodium ions, simple
diffusion would result in a net movement of sodium
ions into the cell, until the concentrations on
the two sides of the membrane became equal. Sodium
actually does diffuse into the cell rather freely,
but as fast as it does so, the cell actively pumps
it out again, against the concentration
difference. The mechanism by which the cell pumps
the sodium ions out is called active transport.
Active transport requires the expenditure of
energy for the work done by the cell in moving
molecules against a concentration gradient. Active
transport enables a cell to maintain a lower
concentration of sodium inside the c ...
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Adolescence Is A Time Of Storm And Strife - 1,781 words
Adolescence Is A Time Of Storm And Strife : :
Introduction : : Adolescence is a time of storm
and strife. Adolescence is a period of time
between childhood and adulthood. This is the age
when one can either make something of his life or
destroy it all, this is the time when a person
makes those friends who changes the how he looks
at life and how he faces it. An adolescent's main
goal these days is to fit in and not be different
from their peers. In this paper I will explore the
probabilities of the following grievances
experienced by the adolescent youth which are
drugs, suicide, and homelessness. : : Body of the
Essay : : Adolescence is the developmental stage
between childhood and adultho ...
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African American Community - 3,076 words
African American Community By 1945, nearly
everyone in the African American community had
heard gospel music (2). At this time, gospel music
was a sacred folk music with origins in field
hollers, work songs, slave songs, Baptist lining
hymns, and Negro spirituals. These songs that
influenced gospel music were adapted and reworked
into expressions of praise and thanks of the
community. Although the harmonies were similar to
those of the blues or hymns in that they shared
the same simplicity, the rhythm was much
different. The rhythms often times had the music
with its unique accents, the speech, walk, and
laughter which brought along with it synchronized
movements. (2) The gospel piano style ...
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Atalanta - 1,635 words
Atalanta I. Summary of the Story Atlanta Her
father had wanted a son, and when Atalanta was
born, he rejected her and ordered to put her out
on the mountains, and let her die. So the servants
put her out on the mountains. There a she-bear
came along, and took a a fancy to the strange
little thing, and fed her with her own milk. By
and by some haunters passed that way, and found
her, and saved her, and brought her up. She became
a hard woman, like her hard father, and like the
hard life she was force to lead. She cared for no
wild beast of the forest. Even when two terrible
Centaurs attacked her, she cared nothing, but
killed them both. When she grew up, she found out
her father, and came to ...
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Ayn Rand Anthem Paper - 954 words
Ayn Rand Anthem Paper When born into the world,
you are sheltered and nourished. When the
appropriate age is reached you begin your
schooling. Once your education is complete you are
employed and work with complete security in your
trade. At forty years of age you retire and spend
the rest of your days with your peers, with
everything requested provided for you. That is as
long as you learn at the same pace as everyone
else. If you're too bright you will be punished.
And as long as you don't ask too many questions,
the overly inquisitive are beaten. As long as you
don't care who you are told to sleep with, because
we know who your genes are most compatible with.
And as long as you don't beli ...
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Battle Of Wounded Knee - 1,661 words
Battle of Wounded Knee annon On December 15, 1890
authorities feared that the Sioux's new Ghost
Dance religion might inspire an uprising. Sitting
Bull permitted Grand River people to join the
antiwhite Ghost Dance cult and was therefore
arrested by troops. In the fracas that followed,
he was shot twice in the head. Sitting Bull'
followers were apprehended and brought to the U.S
Army Camp at Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern
South Dakota. Moving among the tipis, soldiers
lifted women's dresses and touched their private
parts, ripping from them essential cooking and
sewing utensils. The men sitting in the council
heard the angry shrieks of their wives, mothers,
and daughters. Several Lakota, ...
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Big Friendly Giant - 532 words
Big Friendly Giant The BFG Beginning: My book is
about a Big Friendly Giant (BFG) who goes around
every night in different towns and blows dreams,
that he captures, into little boys and girls
rooms. No one has ever seen the BFG, except one
night when he went to England where a young girl,
named Sophie, lived. On that night she couldnt get
to sleep. It was about midnight, (in the story
they call it the witching hour,) and Sophie was
curious and wanted to know what happened outside
so she peeped out her window. When she looked out
her window, she saw the BFG and the BFG saw her.
He didnt want Sophie to go tell every one what she
saw, so he swooped her up and carried her off to
where he lived, ...
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Combustion Carbon Dioxide - 1,146 words
COMBUSTIOn & carbon Dioxide Research By Rabon
Hutcherson II. Combustion and carbon dioxide, what
are they? When people think of combustion they
probably think of simple just bursting into
flames; and for carbon dioxide you probably think
of what we breath out and what plants take from
the air and turn to oxygen. Even though these
thoughts are true there is much more to combustion
and carbon dioxide. Things you might not think of
about combustion are, mathematical equations,
models, solutions and chemical reactions, and for
carbon dioxide dry ice, combustion and it being a
solid. All of these factors you may not have known
are now here for you to see. One of the things
that has lead the way f ...
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Communism - 1,133 words
Communism Communism has failed in Europe because
of its lack of care for the individual, its
corrupt leaders and also because it went against
human nature. Two novels that demonstrate this
statement are the semi-autobiographical We the
Living by Ayn Rand, and Julian Barnes' The
Porcupine. According to Ayn Rand, Communists were
pitiless. When Kira, the protagonist of the story,
begged for help to save her lover's life, the only
answer she received from the general was "Why - in
the face of the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics- can't one aristocrat die?" (216).
Communists say that they want everyone to be equal
and have a good life, yet they contradict
themselves in that they don't acknowle ...
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Dark Side Of Nowhere Summary - 1,219 words
Dark Side Of Nowhere (Summary) This book starts
out with a boy named Ethan dieing and everybody
said it was appendicitis however later Jason and
some others realized it wasnt. Jason didnt like
his life because he thought it was too boring and
he thought his parents were too nice because they
never punished him too badly. Also at Ethans
wedding, Jason wondered why Ethans parents didnt
cry but his dad said it was shock however later
Jason learned Ethan hadnt died at all. At a Little
League game in Billington, Jason got in a fight
with a boy because that boy was insulting the
pitcher who was the girl that Jason liked. He got
badly beat up and he went to the restroom to take
care of the bruises ...
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Edgar Allen Poe - 1,177 words
Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe's life problems
had a profound impact on his various short stories
and poems. Poe's problems started seemingly right
after birth. His biological father, David Poe,
Jr., was an alcoholic and often abused Poe
(Encyclopedia Americana, 274-275). Shortly after
the age of two, Poe's mother died. He only had
memories of her vomiting and being carried away by
sinister men dressed in black, as he put it
(American Writers III). There has been some
speculation as to how this affected Poe. According
to Marie Bonaparte, a student of Sigmund Freud,
his mother's death caused many mental disorders.
Many agree that it warped him until the day he
died. After his mother's death, ...
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Emma - 1,189 words
Emma Of Jane Austen Jane Austens Emma and the
Romantic Imagination "To see a world in a grain of
sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity
in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour."
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence Imagination,
to the people of the eighteenth century of whom
William Blake and Jane Austen are but two,
involves the twisting of the relationship between
fantasy and reality to arrive at a fantastical
point at which a world can be extrapolated from a
single grain of sand, and all the time that has
been and ever will be can be compressed into the
space of an hour. What is proposed by Blake is
clearly ludicrousit runs against the very tide of
reason and senseand y ...
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Erosion Of Barriers - 1,541 words
Erosion Of Barriers The barrier beaches, which
line the south shore of Long Island are in a
constant state of change due to factor's such as
wind, tides and wave action. "The term 'barrier'
identifies one that protects other features, such
as lagoons, salt marshes, and bays from direct
attack from the open ocean" (Leatherman 1). The
pebbles and sand of which these beaches are made
constantly lifted and deposited in other areas.
Currents created by tides and waves carry sediment
and deposit it on beaches and in shallow water
areas along the shoreline. In this paper I will
discuss wave activity, the most prevalent factor
of beach erosion. In addition, I will examine the
roll of sand dunes and ...
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Ethnographic Paper - 1,058 words
... t held a few candles. That wasn't what caught
me off guard. The candles had pictures of Jesus on
them. To my left I saw the famous painting of the
Last Supper, where Jesus and his disciples are
gathered around a long table. Near the right side
of the building there's a small hallway that
directs people to the male or female washrooms. On
those white walls there are pictures of Indian art
such as Shiva, which is a woman dressed in an
orange, yellow, and purple gown. On another visit
to Ground Zero I got a chance to interview. As I
approached Jared, he greeted me with a bright
smile and a firm handshake. We stood in front of
Ground Zero Tattoo where I introduced myself, and
my memory must ...
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Gandhi - 474 words
Gandhi World History Gandhi "Nonviolence in its
dynamic condition means conscious suffering. It
does not mean a meek submission to the will of the
evil-doer, but it means pitting ones whole soul
against the will of the tyrant" Mohatma Gandhi "An
eye for an eye makes everybody blind" summarizes
Gandhis view of violence. That statement is one of
the greatest things ever said, and was borrowed by
other world leaders including Martin Luther King
Jr. Gandhi did not believe in violence as a
technique of achieving his goal of an independent
India. He preached non-violent non cooperation.
Gandhi considered non-violent non cooperation as
requireing more courage and dedication then
violence. Through t ...
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Glass Menagerie - 542 words
Glass Menagerie If ever there were one literary
work most strongly depicting the miseries of human
life, Tennessee Williamss The Glass Menagerie
would be it. Throughout the entire story are
thoughts/feelings encountered by people in real
life . .. although the play script-turned-novel
presents those emotions to the audience
surreptitiously. The story is of three not unusual
characters Amanda, Tom, and Laura in a family.
Amanda, the mother, is now without a husband
trying to look after her children. The curious
part is about how she treats them: she wants them
to go out into the world and ensure their
prosperous future lives .. . but also wants to
have complete dominance over any and all as ...
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Had More Sense Whether His Neighbors Were Cool Or Not Was Not - 1,570 words
... mfortable, or even to mildly imitate the role
which he felt was required here. But his natural
feelings of transparency (which in everyday life
he managed to cover with an act), along with the
disorientation caused by the drug, loomed so large
that Derek could not understand where to begin
acting. Arthur thought he understood. "Look, man,
everybody in there is stoned," he said gently.
"Just act natural. And besides, nobody cares,
anyway." Arthur continued pushing and prodding,
and slowly Derek let himself be convinced
(although he did not know what Arthur meant by
"act natural"). He got out of the car, trying to
relax. He felt disoriented, uncomfortable and
depressed (like he usually did ...
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Isaac Storm - 986 words
Isaac Storm The Storm of 1900 On Friday evening,
September 7, 1900, many of the 37,000 residents of
Galveston, Texas, were settling down to dinner,
few if any of them concerned about the steady 15
mph northerly wind rattling their windows. Within
48 hours, at least 8,000 of the townspeople would
be dead, victims of the single worst natural
disaster in U.S. history. Relatively few people
are aware that the deadliest natural disaster in
the United States was the hurricane that struck
Galveston Island on September 8, 1900. One of the
best resources that can be found to help fully
understand the significance of this storm is
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest
Hurricane in History by ...
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Its The End Of The Worldand I Feel Fine - 1,589 words
... ve, Kahn concludes that a Doomsday device
would not be a rational deterrent because it could
not be controllable. Finally, like the infamous
Werner Von Braun, Strangelove seems to have
significant, high level connections with Nazi
Germany (i.e. "mein Fhrer"), and similarly care
little about what side of the battle he is on. Dr.
Strangelove represents scientific obsession;
Strangelove is brilliant and thrives of the
application and success of his own genius.
However, his role as the Director of Weapons
Research is done not out of a feeling of duty to
America or even out of a dislike of the USSR,
rather he applies his brilliance out of
narcissism, an erotic passion for nuclear power,
and a ...
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